Product category: Design and Development Software
News Release from: Mentor Graphics UK | Subject: FPGA design flow
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 28 May 2003
FPGA design flow runs from IP to the PCB
Mentor Graphics has developed a comprehensive FPGA design flow that expands traditional FPGA tools with new technologies to address emerging challenges of complex FPGA designs.
Mentor Graphics has developed a comprehensive FPGA design flow that expands traditional FPGA tools with new technologies to address emerging challenges of complex FPGA designs The three-part flow, which extends from high-level FPGA design to PCB design, includes existing and future technologies for the design and verification of the FPGAs, embedded systems, and PCBs containing FPGAs
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 12 Jul 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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"Mentor Graphics is the only EDA company with a fully integrated tool solution capable of handling all aspects of FPGA design, from verification and synthesis to embedded software and board layout", said Walden C Rhines, Chairman and CEO of Mentor Graphics.
"We are advancing our position in FPGA design by building beachheads around our tools that are de facto standards in their respective markets".
"The device complexity of FPGAs continues to increase rapidly with the advent of new architectures", said Simon Bloch, General Manager of the FPGA Design Division.
"To maintain the design productivity advantage of FPGAs and complement the traditional FPGA design flows, customers are shifting to design approaches that mirror those of ASICs.
Mentor Graphics offers the most complete portfolio of products to address the increasing challenges of FPGA designers".
Mentor Graphics is continuing its commitment to provide a comprehensive, fully integrated suite of design tools tailored for the next generation of programmable logic device archit